{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{More footnotes|date=January 2019}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Cakile Maritima.jpg |image_caption = ''Cakile maritima'' |taxon = Cakile |authority = Mill. }}
'''''Cakile''''' is a genus within the flowering plant family Brassicaceae. Species in this genus are commonly known as '''searockets''', though this name on its own is applied particularly to whatever member of the species is native or most common in the region concerned, the European searocket ''Cakile maritima'' in Europe, and the American searocket ''C. edentula'' in North America. The genus is native to Europe, Asia and North America, but the European searocket has been introduced into North America and has spread widely on both east and west coasts; in many places it is replacing the native ''C. edentula'', and is regarded as an undesirable invasive species.
''Cakile'' species grow as annual plants with an erect or decumbent stem. The common species in Europe and North America grow close to the coast, often in dunes. Their leaves are fleshy. Flowers are typically pale mauve to white, with petals about 1 cm in length. Each fruit has two sections, one that remains attached to the adult, and the other which that falls off for dispersal by wind or water.<ref>Keddy, P.A. 1982. Population ecology on an environmental gradient: Cakile edentula on a sand dune. Oecologia 52: 348-355.</ref>
They are rather similar to those of the wild radish (also in family Brassicaceae) which is found in the same regions, and careful attention to the leaves and stems is needed to tell the two plants apart.
{{As of|January 2019}}, Kew's Plants of the World Online accepts seven species:<ref name=powo/> *''Cakile arabica'' <small>Velen.</small> *''Cakile arctica'' <small>Pobed.</small> *''Cakile constricta'' <small>Rodman</small> *''Cakile edentula'' <small>(Bigelow) Hook.</small> *''Cakile geniculata'' <small>(B.L.Rob.) Millsp.</small> *''Cakile lanceolata'' <small>(Willd.) O.E.Schulz</small> *''Cakile maritima'' <small>Scop.</small>
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=powo>{{cite web |title=''Cakile'' Mill. |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30023751-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanical Gardens Kew |access-date=8 January 2019}}</ref> }} * {{cite book|last=Miller|first=Philip|title=The Gardeners Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4QE2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PT241|access-date=17 November 2012|volume=1|year=1754|publisher=John and James Rivington|pages=241–242}} *[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?2240,2335 Jepson manual treatment of the genus] *[https://plants.usda.gov/java/nameSearch?keywordquery=cakile&mode=sciname&submit.x=9&submit.y=13 USDA PLANTS database entry on ''Cakile'']
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Category:Brassicaceae genera Category:Taxa named by Philip Miller